NAOP Leadership Council

Ann Satterthwaite

Ann Satterthwaite has a strong interest in the work of the Olmsteds and is currently supporting a project to develop a bibliography of unpublished papers on the work of the Olmsteds. Both her professional and community activities have been focused on ways to make cities, towns and the countryside both livable and functional through a wide range of projects in historic preservation, conservation of natural and cultural landscapes, tourism, recreation, heritage development and environmental planning.

Lynden B. Miller

Lynden B. Miller is a public garden designer in New York City. Her work is dedicated to fulfilling her belief that thoughtfully designed open space can improve city life for all. In 1982, she rescued and restored the Central Park Conservancy Conservatory Garden and now serves as its Director. Her work includes the gardens for The Central Park Zoo, Bryant Park, The New York Botanical Garden, Wagner Park in Battery Park City and Columbia University. She is the author of the recently published book, Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape. Lynden is co-chair of New Yorkers For Parks, an independent citywide organization advocating for public support of parks and recreation.

Arleyn Levee

Arleyn A. Levee is a landscape historian and preservation consultant specializing in the work of the Olmsted firm. She is particularly interested in John Charles Olmsted and his extensive nationwide projects, as well as in understanding the design contributions made by the numerous less recognized partners and members of the firm.

Betsy Shure Gross

Betsy Shure Gross is a founding member of NAOP and its 2nd National Co-Chair with the late Dr. Charles McLaughlin. She is the former Executive Director of the Office of Public Private Partnerships for the Executive Office of Environmental Affairs in Massachusetts. Betsy is active in parks and open space activities at the local, state and national level.

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. A native of San Antonio, TX, Ms. Rogers earned a BA degree from Wellesley College and an MA in city planning from Yale University. In 1979, she was appointed Central Park administrator, and she was instrumental in founding the Central Park Conservancy in 1981. She led the Conservancy as president until 1996, when she founded the Cityscape Institute. In 2002, she created the Garden History and Landscape Studies curriculum at the Bard Graduate Center.

Victoria Post Ranney

Victoria Post Ranney was for many years an Associate Editor of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. She edited Volume V: The California Frontier, 1863-65 (1990). Earlier she had written Olmsted in Chicago (1972). Currently she is President of Prairie Holdings Corporation, which has developed Prairie Crossing, one of the country’s first green communities. Its nearly 400 energy-efficient homes are clustered so that more than half of the 667–acre site is preserved as open land: native prairies and wetlands, lakes, trails and an organic farm. Located in Grayslake, IL, where two rail lines cross, it offers easy commuting to Chicago and a small Station Square with shops and
a restaurant.

Eleanor G. Ames

Eleanor G. Ames of Portland and Rockport, Maine, currently serves as a Trustee of the Maine Historical Society and is an Advisory Trustee of Maine Preservation and Greater Portland Landmarks. In years past, she served on the boards of the Maine Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Maine Olmsted Alliance for Parks and Landscapes, the Cultural Landscape Foundation and the State House and Capitol Park Commission in Augusta. She works as a private consultant and holds a Graduate Certificate in Landscape Design from the Radcliffe Seminars
Graduate Program.

Charles Eliot Beveridge

Charles Eliot Beveridge is Series Editor of The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. To date Volumes 1–7 and Supplementary Series Volume 1 have been published, and work is underway on Volume 8 and Supplementary Series Volume 2. Dr. Beveridge is the author of several publications on Olmsted and his career, including Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape, prepared with photographer Paul Rocheleau.

David Schuyler

David Schuyler is Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor of the Humanities and Professor of American Studies at Franklin & Marshall College, where he has taught since 1979. A native of Newburgh, NY, Schuyler received the Ph. D. in history from Columbia University, where his dissertation was awarded the Richard B. Morris Prize. David was co-editor of Volumes 2, 3 and 6 of the Olmsted Papers, and is the author of The New Urban Landscape and Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing. He is the editor of Volume 9 of the Olmsted Papers, commencing in July 2011.